When we think creatively, produce novel ideas, or otherwise have “Eureka” moments, we may actually unlock access to a ...

Dr Sumedha Kotwal When we look deeply into matter, the solidity of the world begins to dissolve. What appears hard, tangible, ...

Humans know they exist, but how does "knowing" work? Despite all that's been learned about brain function and the bodily ...

Physicist Michael Pravica has put forth a revolutionary theory suggesting that human consciousness may originate from a ...

The original version ofthis storyappeared in Quanta Magazine. Science routinely puts forward theories, then batters them with data till only one is left standing. In the fledgling science of ...

What it means to be conscious is more than just a philosophical question. Researchers continue to investigate how conscious experience arises from the electrochemical activity of the human brain. The ...

Science, with extraordinary achievements in the arena of knowledge and development, is still struggling to define ...

Erik Hoel opens his recent book, The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science 1, with a review of “humanity’s two perspectives on the world.” I learned of Hoel’s ...

This post was co-authored with Ralph Weir, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Lincoln. He is the author of The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics: An Argument from Consciousness to ...

We can account for the evolution of consciousness only if we crack the philosophy, as well as the physics, of the brain. Your consciousness is what it's like to be you. It's your experiences of color ...

A small percentage of people with epilepsy experience a state of “oneness” with the world just before their seizures. The ...